From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IWDlf-0008Vj-SJ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:11:44 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l8EG1xrX008171; Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:01:59 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.185]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l8EG1wx4008145 for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:01:59 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id f5so736483nfh for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:01:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=bGz2NqypiElX7Oh2s6A69Q91X0NTT+KBIsRQ0BsrX5w=; b=I61JvsV+pa5JrLZKi5kmXjSMqI2oHseIh2Ht+b7BTEOZUCI3TS/CpYd5T2QhY6ErLiYUuNibWY9+XjoLvhpS8Pcn6tYpOzlyjWra+8GwfpCEu2iWLEwKKzaQlubr82NfwcMk65ldoONHh54hPQ1c0LRuN4NmOkwKLysGDR51BtM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=CvedBCgmJRQIp0LVSgXrTT7M36gWPx9iCP7gm5sm4N7b9Dv7xcoxWd51QN/Gtz1L/H5e/PeesunQ3WZ21MmcM7niP6tZj/1unlZUpEmwx9uTe/qSwypJUuVBCSVce6DmMzJBt2qkZ31f3GG7h8jhvgfK9qoABB0Bn7JIQ6ALgoE= Received: by 10.82.178.11 with SMTP id a11mr2725774buf.1189785718386; Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:01:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.141.10 with HTTP; Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:01:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7a329d910709140901xaaf206fid399a47e617f5e66@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:01:58 -0400 From: "Wil Reichert" To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Local network backup In-Reply-To: <200709141303.46235.prh@gotadsl.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200709141022.26291.prh@gotadsl.co.uk> <7a329d910709140429u2eda1c7taa46b691f940ee62@mail.gmail.com> <200709141303.46235.prh@gotadsl.co.uk> X-Archives-Salt: f2b6d816-2704-4dc8-b071-8d8dcc86b5ac X-Archives-Hash: 6fa64de7bcc68c239fd9473550c64277 On 9/14/07, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday 14 Sep 2007, Wil Reichert wrote: > > I'm assuming since you're asking this question your firewall is locked down > > pretty tight. > > Not particularly, but it seems silly to take needless risks. It has shorewall > to manage iptables, but I still let it run squid, ntpd, dnsmasq and a few > other little goodies. I suppose I rely on shorewall to keep me safe. > > > That said, backing up your personal data to it seems like a not very good > > idea. Were you planning on encrypting it or something? > > I see what you mean, but really the main use of the backup would be to recover > a working system to a damaged box (I can be just as clumsy in admin as anyone > else), rather than spending a week or more rebuilding it from source. User > data could perhaps be backed up elsewhere - I have a handy little USB disk > that would do nicely. > > > Who uses your internal network seems to be the variable here. Is this at > > work or home? > > The clue was in "my tiny LAN" which means my own :-) > > > Is there a wireless router thrown in there somewhere? > > The one wireless link is between the laptop and an access point; the WAP is > connected to an Ethernet switch which lives between the workstation and the > gateway. Why do you ask? Shorewall is good =) If its your own private LAN with no (few?) external users, why bother with ssh & encrypting traffic? Wil -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list